{"id":2215,"date":"2012-05-03T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2012-05-03T17:34:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:34:01","slug":"jack-white-and-ephesians-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/jack-white-and-ephesians-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack White and Ephesians 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been caught up in Ephesians 1 and the new Jack White album recently.\u00a0 Granted, I think he&#8217;s singing about human love but it points me to the love I&#8217;m reading about in Ephesians 1:3-14.\u00a0 There, our triune God&#8217;s rescuing love is dominant&#8212;<strong>&#8220;IN LOVE, He&#8221;<\/strong>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>White sings,<em> &#8220;I want love to walk right up and bite me.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em> This human desire for something to be undeniable and initiating.\u00a0 And so is the love of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 They really do walk right up and bite us.<\/p>\n<p>In another place White declares, <em>&#8220;I won\u2019t let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 This fear of what love will DO to us.\u00a0 That it will &#8220;mess us up&#8221;.\u00a0 Ephesians 1 counters that the love of God is tremendously <strong><em>disrupting<\/em><\/strong> and <em><strong>interrupting<\/strong><\/em>, yea even undeniable AND healing\/restoring instead of <strong><em>corrupting<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been thinking.\u00a0 That, and that Jack White made a fun album.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/jack-white-and-ephesians-1\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been caught up in Ephesians 1 and the new Jack White album recently.\u00a0 Granted, I think he&#8217;s singing about human love but it points me to the love I&#8217;m reading about in Ephesians 1:3-14.\u00a0 There, our triune God&#8217;s rescuing love is dominant&#8212;&#8220;IN LOVE, He&#8221;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>White sings, &#8220;I want love to walk right up and bite [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor","tag-trinity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-zJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}